Important instructions regarding the BTech final year project work

Project, one of the subjects in the final year B.Tech course covering seventh and eighth semesters carries a university marks of 150 as per the curriculum of Calicut University and is an essential requirement for the partial fulfillment of B.Tech Degree.The role of this subject is not only to impart and induce practical know how but also extract the inherent capabilities and talents of an engineering student so as to apply in practical fields for the research and development.Project work incites a triggering impulse in an engineering student for onset of his future professional carrier as an engineer.

PROJECT EVALUATION 

University Requirements

Seventh Semester:-

The project work is for duration of two semesters. Each student group consisting of not more than four members is expected to develop a complete product. The design and development of which may include hardware and/or software. The assessment of all projects will be done in each semester by a committee consisting of faculty members of the department.  After finalizing the topic and selection of guide, students should submit a Project proposal with approval of the guide. The project work can start only after the approval of the committee constituted.  In case of non-approval, the suggestions for reformulating the project will be communicated to the students. The revised proposal may be submitted again to the committee in a different time slot. The project may be an in-house project or an external project. In any case, the student is associated with a guide. An interim report is to be submitted at the end of 7^th semester. Student will present their project work before the committee.  The pattern for awarding marks is as follows:

Attendance                  :            5 Marks

Report and Individual assessment by guide                                             :               15Marks              

Work in design and presentation evaluated by committee           :  30Marks

                                                                                                                Total                      :               50Marks

Eighth Semester:-

The project work is a continuation of the seventh semester project. The student should complete the project work in this semester and present it before the assessing committee. The assessment committee as constituted in the seventh semester will assess the projects, fix relative grading and group average marks. The guide will award the marks for the individual student in the project maintaining the group average.  For external projects, evaluation of attendance may be done on the basis of proof of attendance provided by a competent authority of the external agency. In addition, the technical report may contain a certificate from competent authority of the external agency as proof for originality of work done by the student at their premise.

A minimum of 50% is required for a pass in the subjects. The university marks of 150 are awarded entirely by the internal assessment of the progress and performance during two semesters.

The pattern for awarding marks will be as follows:

1.Attendance: 10 marks

2.Technical report, work done and presentation evaluated by committee : 60 marks

 3.Work record and individual assessment by guide : 30 marks

Total = 100 marks.

GRAND TOTAL           :150Marks

During the assessments the following factors of the performance will be particularly taken into account:

1. Selection of the topic for the project and its quality                        

2. Literature Survey

3. Evaluation will take into account of the sincerity, devotion, regularity and the actual effort of doing the project work in addition to the quality and perfection. Progress will be continuously monitored by the guide.

4. Practical demonstration of the experimental set up and result, fabrication, if any, computer work etc.

5. Preparation of manuscript and its approval

6. Quality of the final report

Failure in this subject of the final year would lead to a loss of one academic year. It has to be specifically noted that the Project will also be assessed separately in addition to Seminar and general knowledge during the final Viva-Voce Examination.

      GUIDELINES FOR THE PREPARATION OF B. Tech. PROJECT REPORTS

• Project reports should be typed neatly only on one side of the paper with 1.5 or double line spacing on A4 size bond paper (210 x 297 mm). The margins should be: Left – 1.25” Right – 1”, Top and Bottom – 0.75”.

• The total number of reports to be prepared are

  • One copy to the department.

  • One copy to the library.

  • One copies to each candidate.

• Before taking the Final printout, the approval of the concerned guide(s) is mandatory and suggested corrections, if any, must be incorporated.

• The organization of the report must be as follows.

1.   Outer title page with a plastic cover

2.   Inner title page(White).

3.   Certificate in the format enclosed both from the college and the organization if any where the project is carried out.

4.  An abstract (synopsis) not exceeding 100 words, indicating salient features of the work.

5.   Acknowledgements                                  

6.   Table of Contents

7.    List of table and figures(optional)

8.  Chapters (to be numbered in Arabic) containing Introduction- which usually specifies the scope of work and its importance and relation to previous work and the present developments, Main body of the report appropriately into chapters, sections and subsections.

     The chapters, sections and subsections may be numbered in the decimal form for e.g. Chapter 2, sections as 2.1, 2.2 etc., and subsections are 2.2.3, 2.5.1 etc.

 9. Followed by the title of chapter centered (font size 18), section/subsection numbers along with their headings must be left justified with section number and its heading in font size 16 and subsection and its heading in font size 14. The body or the text of the report should have font size 12.

10. The figures and tables must be numbered chapter wise for e.g. Fig. 2.1 Block diagram of a serial binary adder, Table 3.1 Primitive flow table, etc. All figures and tables should appear either in the same page or the next page in which they are referred first. Preferably, all figures and tables are to be placed either at the top or the bottom of a given page.

 11. The last chapter should contain the summary of the work carried, contributions if any, their utility along with the scope for further work.

 12. Reference: The references should be numbered serially in the order of their occurrence in the text and their numbers should be indicated within square backers for e.g. [3]. The section on references should list them in serial order in the following format.

a)  For textbooks – A. V. Oppenheim and R.W. Schafer, Digital Signal Processing, Englewood, N.J., Prentice Hall, 3 Edition, 1975.

b)  For papers- Devid, Insulation design to combat pollution problem, Proc of IEEE, PAS, Vol 71, Aug 1981, pp 1901-1907,

•    Only SI units are to be used in the report. Important equations must be numbered in decimal form for e.g.V=IZ. All equation numbers should be right justified.

•    The project report should be brief and include descriptions of work carried out by others only to the minimum extent necessary. Verbatim reproduction of material available elsewhere should be strictly avoided.

•    Proper attention is to be paid not only to the technical contents but also to the organization of the report and clarity of the expression. Due care should be taken to avoid spelling and typing errors. The student should note that report-write-up forms the important component in the overall evaluation of the project.

•   Hardware projects must include: the component layout, complete circuit with the component list containing the name of the component, numbers used, etc.

•   Software projects must include a virus free disc, containing the software developed by them along with the readme file. Readme file should contain the details of the variables used, salient features of the software and procedure of using them: compiling procedure, details of the computer hardware/software requirements to run the same, etc. If the developed software uses any public domain software downloaded from some site, then the address of the site along with the module name etc. must be included on a separate sheet. It must be properly acknowledged in the acknowledgments.

•   The reports submitted to the department/guide(s) must be hard bounded, with a plastic covering.

•   Separator sheets, used if any, between chapters, should be of thin paper.

The report is a hard bound book with a fixed color cover for each department. Ample report size is 60-80 pages (starting from Abstract page to References page). Students must submit the report in electronic form also - this electronic form, made available in CD, will contain the entire project document besides multi-media illustration material prepared using any presentation software.

 Project Report Contents

1. Outer title page
2. Inner title page.
3. Certificate.
4. An abstract
5. Acknowledgements                                  
6. Table of Contents
7. List of table and figures (optional)
8. Introduction
9. Literature Survey
10. Different Chapters
11. Conclusion and Future scope
12. References
13. Appendices